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Showdown   /ʃˈoʊdˌaʊn/   Listen
Showdown

noun
1.
A hostile disagreement face-to-face.  Synonyms: confrontation, encounter, face-off.






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"Showdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... I ain't. But we'll talk about that when the subject is riper. There will be a showdown some day, and don't you forget it. Well, Charley is calling me. So long, Miss Three-Quarters-Past-Seventeen." He went jingling down the steps and swung to the saddle. "I'll not forget the ad, and when I find the right man I'll ...
— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine

... says Barber Sam, fiercely, "there 's a lord inside and you outside, to-day—a mighty suspicious coincidence! No, you need n't let on you don't tumble to my meenin'! I 've had my eye on Steve Barclay an' you, and I 'm ready for a showdown. I 'm travelin' for my health to-day, and so are you, Bill Merridew! I 'm fixed from the ground up an' you know there ain't a man in the Red Hoss Mountain country that is handier with a gun than me. Now I mean ...
— Second Book of Tales • Eugene Field

... have to hide long. Just until we get organized and then will come the time when we'll call for the showdown. Chambers will have to spread ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... for the troops at Montmorillon was generally inspection time. Inspections were held on the public plaza. Showdown inspections were as exacting as Camp Meade days. Saturday afternoon and Sunday were days of rest for those who were ...
— The Delta of the Triple Elevens - The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, - American Expeditionary Forces • William Elmer Bachman

... for meanness," Quin ventured. "She'd give you all she had if it came to a showdown. But none of 'em realize you are grown up; they are afraid to ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice



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